Jamie Clayton: 5 Things To Know About First Woman To Play Pinhead in ‘Hellraiser’

Jamie Clayton is acceptable to scare you silly this Halloween season. The 44-year-old histrion is playing the evil supernatural being Pinhead successful the reimagining of the 1987 fearfulness classical Hellraiser, whose trailer dropped connected Wednesday (October 5). The relation was archetypal played by Doug Bradley successful Clive Barker‘s archetypal film, which was based connected Barker’s ain novella The Hellbound Heart, wherever humans lick an evil puzzle container to summon Cenobites, the extra-dimensional creatures led by Pinhead, who thrives connected symptom and pleasure.

Jamie Clayton plays the villain successful the reboot of ‘Hellraiser’. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

While we patiently hold for the movie to driblet connected Hulu connected October 7, let’s instrumentality a person look astatine Jamie, who is the archetypal pistillate to ever play Pinhead. Keep speechmaking to find retired each astir her, below.

Where is Jamie from and erstwhile did she transition?

Jamie was calved connected January 15, 1978 successful San Diego. She began to modulation into a pistillate successful 2003 and landed the relation of a trans quality connected Netflix’ Sense8 successful 2014. “Playing a trans-character connected a amusement being shepherded by Lana Wachowski, I knew I would beryllium protected and represented successful a mode that trans radical person ne'er been represented earlier connected TV,” Jamie said astatine the Television Critics’ Association’s summertime property circuit successful 2015, per The Wrap.

She started arsenic a constitution artist

Before focusing connected acting, Jamie Clayton was a constitution artist. She’s seen present successful her Pinhead look. (Spyglass Media Group/Hulu_

Before she turned to acting, Jamie started her vocation arsenic a constitution artist. In 2010, she played the relation of a constitution creator connected the world makeover amusement TRANSform Me, which aired connected VH1 Television, which prompted her to commencement chasing her caller imagination of acting.

Jamie appeared nude in Sense8

Jamie is champion known for starring arsenic Nomi Marks successful the Netflix original series Sense8, wherever she played a trans pistillate machine hacker surviving successful San Francisco. In the 2nd play of the sci-fi drama, Jamie strips down to her day suit with the arsenic nude Freema Agyeman, who plays her woman Amanita.

She stayed successful quality arsenic Pinhead portion connected set

The Hellraiser manager said Jamie was “scary arsenic hell” successful her audition. (Spyglass Media Group/Hulu)

“I’m not Method per se, but I was successful quality from the infinitesimal I would permission the constitution trailer,” Jamie explained to EW. “Walking connected acceptable was funny. I’m precise utilized to walking connected acceptable and everybody being like, ‘Hi!’ and I’m like, ‘Hi!’ On this, now, I locomotion connected set, and I’m truly quiet, and I’m like, ‘Don’t you f—king speech to me.'”

She besides said helium felt the request to enactment successful quality portion determination were breaks successful filming due to the fact that playing Pinhead is “a dense spot to go.” She added, “So to spell that deep, you can’t conscionable travel backmost erstwhile they’re resetting a changeable and person a sip of Schweppes Bitter Lemon and past spell backmost in. I had to conscionable enactment there.”

The Hellraiser manager said Jamie was “scary arsenic hell” successful her audition

Keeping successful quality whitethorn person helped Jamie onshore the role, arsenic she surely impressed the movie’s manager during her audition. “She was scary arsenic hell!” David Bruckner told EW. “Honestly, it was the astir frightening work that I had seen by a mile. Also, Doug’s show is truthful iconic and truthful unthinkable and nuanced successful each its ain ways, we knew that we couldn’t rip it off. We needed a antithetic voice, and we didn’t cognize what that was.”

He went connected to accidental the casting section looked astatine galore prospects to play Pinhead, but they kept coming backmost to Jamie due to the fact that of her unsocial instrumentality connected the character. “From the beginning, Jamie had this sensuality; she was expressing the desires of the [character] successful a mode that she was revealing yourself more, and determination was intrigue and curiosity, and she didn’t outwardly effort to intimidate truthful overmuch arsenic beryllium this benignant of silky evil presence. Like, she’s sexy, I’m drawn to her, she’s beautiful, yet astatine immoderate fixed moment, she mightiness propulsion chains astatine my head.”